Pliers



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(ModeL) PLIERS.

Patented Feb. 23, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. HILL, OF SPRINGFIELD, \I ISCONSIN.

PLIERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 336,715, dated February 23, 1886.

Application filed April 29, 1885. Serial No. 163,870. (Model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES F. HILL, of Springfield,Walworth connty,Wisconsin,have invented new and Improved Pliers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact descrip tion.

The object of my invention is to provide new and improved pliers for closing open wire rings for holding uprights on fenccwires.

The invention consists in pliers formed of two crossed levers pivoted at theintersection, each lever having ajaw provided in the inner edge with asemicircular recess having a semicircular groove.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is aside view. partly in section, of my improved pliers. Fig. 2 is a cross-sectional view of the same on the line w 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side view, partly in section, of the pliers open, with the levers broken off, showing an open ring in the same. Fig. 4 is a cross section on line 3/ y of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a view of the open wire ring, and Fig. 6 is a side View of the ring closed.

The pliers are formed of two crossed levers, A, pivoted at the intersection, and each provided with ajaw, B, each having a semicircular recess, 0, forming an aperture through the jaws for the passage of the fence-wire in the inner edge, and a semicircular groove, D, in the recess, as shown. The groove D is of a greater width than the diameter of the wire of the open ring, and is oblique to the pivot of the jaws, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4. The forward part of the groove is beveled, as at a, to facilitate the insertion of the open ring into the groove, and its rear portion is beveled inwardly toward the center from the points a, forming the protuberance b, to cause the ends of the open ring to commence bending in a circle as soon as pressure is applied, all as clearly shown in Fig. 3. This construction of the groove permits the ends of the wire to pass each other to form a spiral rin The open wire ring E is passed around the crossed fence-wires or other objects, and the jaws B of the pliers are passed around the ring E. The levers A are then pressed together,whereby the jaws are pressed together and the ends of the ring E are overlapped to form a spiral ring, as shown in Fig. 4, whereby the open ring is closed. As the grooves D, in which the open ring is passed, are semicircular, the closed ring will be pressed into a circular shape.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. As an improved article of manufacture, pliers having a groove in their jaws inclined to the axis of the pivot of the saidjaws and provided with a transverse opening, as set forth.

2. Pliers having a transverse opening, 0, and the grooveD in their jaws, t-hesaid groove being oblique to the pivot of the said jaws and having its forward part beveled, as at a, and provided with the protuberance b at its rear portion, substantially as herein shown and described.

CHARLES F. HILL.

Witnesses:

LYDIA HILL, MARY SNODGRASS. 

